Virtual PMTs: Improving centroid positioning performance near the edges of a gamma camera detector

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 645-649

  Vaska, Paul ^a   Petrillo, Michael J ^b   Muehllehner, Gerd ^c  

^a BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b ADAC Laboratories   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Data acquisition; Position measurement; Positron emission tomography (PET); Scintillation detectors; Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT)

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; GAMMA RAYS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

SINGLE-PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (SPECT);

RADIATION DETECTORS;

EID: 0035355157     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.940140     Document Type: Article

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